ICANMOVE2009

Hello, I’m Cesar Antonio Navas

I was assaulted and shot in my neck on the 1st of july 2009, the bullet caliber 38 only fractured the spinous process of the C5 vertebra and as a miracle didn't touch the spinal cord, however, it was swollen due to the blast and instantly lost sensitivity and motor activity from the neck down.

I was operated on July 8, 2009 in the northern metropolitan clinic, Carabobo, Venezuela where titanium fixtures where placed in my neck.
    It was a drastic change in my life. I stopped my work as a comercial diver, my studies in mechanical engineering and computer design, my sports (wakeboarding, kayaking, diving, swimming, mountain biking, down hill, rapel, cannioning)

From that moment I decided to start my rehabilitation. I started to see the positive side of what had happened to me, I had survived!       This helped me from the beginning to give everything in my therapy and in my recovery. Everything I am today I owe to the team who have been with me in the good, the bad and the worst times.

 This team is composed by extraordinary people.
The list is too long to name them all, however I want to give my parents Cesar Navas and Alida Calatrava my greatest appreciation in their desire and struggle for helping me see that: I CAN MOVE!